National Basketball Association (N.B.A.)

News about National Basketball Association (N.B.A.), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 17, 2015

NBA announces expansion of drug-testing program to include human growth hormone. MORE

Apr. 7, 2015

NBA will send first delegation to Cuba for four-day men's and women's basketball clinic in Havana; will become first American professional sports organization to visit country since restoration of diplomatic relations. MORE

Feb. 15, 2015

NBA Roundup; Commissioner Adam Silver highlights his intended accomplishments for his second year in post, saying he wants to focus on the game itself and be less sidetracked by politics and controversy. MORE

Feb. 13, 2015

NBA All-Star Game and promotional events surrounding it have become increasingly exclusive over years; tickets for game will be distributed to marketing and broadcast partners and individual teams and, for fifth straight year, will not be sold directly to public. MORE

Feb. 9, 2015

National Basketball Assn podcast The Starters is now primarily television program that is growing quickly in popularity; show's audience on NBATV has risen 24 percent and its podcasts downloads are up 22 percent. MORE

Jan. 30, 2015

NBA Roundup; NBA announces five-year deal with Tencent Holdings Limited to carry games and other content on its digital platforms in China; other basketball news noted. MORE

Dec. 25, 2014

Melissa Rosenthal Brenner, NBA's senior vice president for digital media, is anticipating long, challenging day on Christmas, when five games will be played. MORE

Dec. 2, 2014

National Basketball Association releases collection of holiday-themed sweaters for all 30 teams and 10 specific sweaters are available; NBA is marketing them as ugly sweaters and they are being sold on league’s website and at other online stores, arena shops and Lids locations. MORE

Nov. 15, 2014

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver becomes first chief of a major American sports league to call for federal sports betting laws to be changed so that states can allow betting on games; shift could represent major new income source for the NBA; other sports leagues, including the NFL, stand firm in their defense of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which bans sports betting in all but a few instances. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver breaks from years of precedent as he calls for legalization of sports gambling in a New York Times Op-Ed article; Silver's contention that sports gambling has become a popular form of entertainment in the United States that simply needs to be carefully regulated is a stark reversal of the NBA's long-standing opposition to sports betting. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times holds that length of NBA season and controversy over resting players in games on consecutive nights are quality-of-life issues NBA will be forced to confront by Michele Roberts, players union’s new, and very determined, executive director. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

National Basketball Association's board of governors vote down measure to overhaul the way the draft lottery is conducted; in current lottery system, worst team in league has 25 percent chance of securing top pick in draft; revised lottery would have worsened those odds, with goal of not overly rewarding teams for losing. MORE

Oct. 7, 2014

Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column notes that with the NBA announcing $24 billion worth of television contract deals, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James throws down the gauntlet on future collective bargaining negotiations three years after the players were locked out and lost ground with team owners in a settlement on shared revenue; his bottom line is no more cries of poverty by NBA. MORE

Oct. 7, 2014

NBA's new deals with ESPN and Turner Sports, worth $24 billion over nine years, gives the two media giants the right to stream out-of-market games to fans on the web. MORE

Oct. 6, 2014

NBA will reportedly receive $24 billion over nine years in deals the league has renewed with ESPN and TNT through the 2024-25 season. MORE

Sep. 9, 2014

Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson announces plans to sell his controlling interest in the basketball team as a result of a racially charged email he wrote in 2012; memo prompted an NBA investigation that would probably have resulted in Levenson being disciplined by the league. MORE

Jul. 16, 2014

NBA's effort to strip Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling of franchise is experiencing delays as Sterling and his wife Rochelle Sterling remain locked in litigation; association says it cannot guarantee that Sterling will be removed by start of next season. MORE

Jul. 13, 2014

Box Seats column by NBA basketball executive Kiki Vandeweghe makes case for extending NBA's waiting period to two years after high school, saying two years of pre-NBA experience would be beneficial to players, as well as the game; says that players would be more mature, drafts would be better and college game would be healthier. MORE

Jun. 12, 2014

Los Angeles Judge Michael Levanas agrees to hold trial to determine whether Donald Sterling is medically capable of serving as trustee of the Sterling family trust, which controls the Los Angeles Clippers; decision will probably have consequences for the team and NBA. MORE

May. 30, 2014

Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer agrees to pay $2 billion for Los Angeles Clippers; Rochelle Sterling, Donald Sterling's wife and co-owner of team, signs deal, which would be largest price ever for a National Basketball Association franchise; sale ends troubling situation for league. MORE

May. 21, 2014

Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column criticizes England's Premier League for its decision not to penalize league's chief executive Richard Scudamore for sexist comments in his emails; argues that failure is in stark contrast to NBA's swift response to racist comments from Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. MORE

May. 10, 2014

NBA posts its constitution, which had long remained confidential, on its website as it seeks to force Donald Sterling into selling the Los Angeles Clippers; document shows that Sterling's future will hinge on Article 13, which outlines circumstances under which ownership can be terminated; remains unclear how rules will affect Sterling's wife Rochelle, who co-owns team through trust and has pledged to keep control. MORE

May. 10, 2014

NBA names prominent business executive Richard Parsons to lead the Los Angeles Clippers on an interim basis as league moves to strip Donald Sterling of his ownership stake; Parsons was the former chairman of Citigroup and the former chief executive of Time Warner. MORE

May. 7, 2014

Recent history offers a variety of examples in which professional sports leagues have taken over franchises; information could be useful to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver as he prepares to hire an executive to run the Los Angeles Clippers while he begins the process of stripping owner Donald Sterling of his franchise. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

National Basketball Association hands lifetime ban to longtime Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling; ban, an extraordinary step in professional sports, is intended to rid the league of Sterling after he was recorded making racist comments; Commissioner Adam Silver says NBA will try to force Sterling to sell the team. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column notes that it is up to the NBA's 29 owners to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers now that he has received a lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver; hopes that owners can muster will for the three-quarter vote required by the league's Board of Governors to end Sterling's misanthropic ownership of the team. MORE

Apr. 30, 2014

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's authority to ban and fine Los Angeles Clippers owner David Sterling is largely unquestioned, but his ability to force sale of team remains murkier; list of causes in league's constitution that would prompt termination of ownership do not specifically include making racist or incendiary remarks. MORE

Apr. 29, 2014

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who finds himself at center of debate over racist remarks, is part of the old guard of NBA owners, men who bought teams before the league became a global phenomenon; new guard of owners could help determine Sterling's fate as they await findings from investigation into the remarks led by NBA commissioner Adam Silver. MORE

Apr. 29, 2014

Editorial notes that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling had a long history of bigotry before he became embroiled in scandal over anti-black statements; criticizes National Basketball Assn for sheltering and tolerating Sterling for so long, and calls on it to make clear that there is no place for owners with racist sentiments. MORE

Apr. 28, 2014

Los Angeles Clippers stage silent protest before game against Golden State Warriors, reacting to recordings of racist remarks attributed to Clippers' owner Donald Sterling; Sterling was barred from attending game as NBA investigates remarks, which have ignited controversy throughout league and across country. MORE

Apr. 28, 2014

Harvey Araton On Pro Basketball column argues that racist comments allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling give the players union a chance to expand its role in how the NBA conducts its affairs. MORE

Apr. 27, 2014

NBA promises swift investigation into remarks attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after release of audio recording in which person identified as Sterling admonishes female friend to avoid being seen in public with black people; reaction against Sterling around the league, whose players are predominantly African-American, has been immediate and forceful. MORE

Mar. 25, 2014

Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail D Prokhorov speaks in Moscow about transferring team to a Russian-based company and his desire to turn the Nets into the legal equivalent of a Russian team; NBA denies his claim that it had given him approval to shift Nets’ ownership to any other company than its current American-based owners. MORE

Jan. 26, 2014

David Stern is stepping down as NBA commissioner after 30 years on the job, and 48 over all with the league; Adam Silver will succeed him. MORE

Dec. 11, 2013

NBA issued 21 fines and suspensions worth over $602,000 in November, matching total from first full calendar month of previous three seasons combined; sum does not include fines for the 343 technical fouls and 21 flagrant fouls called in games, which bring automatic fines of $2,000 each; disciplinary binge reflects what appears to be growing impulse in the NBA and the other leagues to make fines a fact of life. MORE

Jul. 11, 2013

NBA announces that Stu Jackson will step down as executive vice president for basketball operations at the National Basketball Assn and Rod Thorn will return as president for basketball operations. MORE

Feb. 15, 2013

NBA is unveiling redesigned, fully sortable search engine on its Web site that contains just about every statistic in league history. MORE

Oct. 26, 2012

David Stern will step down as NBA commissioner on Feb 1, 2014, after 30 years in the position; will continue to advise his hand-picked successor Adam Silver. MORE

Jun. 12, 2012

Kelly Hardwick, a security director for the National Basketball Association, files a lawsuit against Geno Auriemma, the coach of the United States Olympic women’s basketball team, claiming that he grabbed and tried to forcibly kiss her at a hotel during a basketball tournament in Russia in 2009; suit also claims that Auriemma demanded that the NBA remove Hardwick as top security official for the United States women's team at the London Olympics as retaliation for Hardwick's rejection of his advances. MORE

May. 10, 2012

National Football League and National Basketball Association have transition programs for former athletes, whose finances often derail after retirement due to a mix of immaturity, dubious investments, overspending and poor financial planning; Major League Baseball is working on a similar program. MORE

Apr. 18, 2012

Presentation to the NBA’s board of governors suggest that the league might become the first of the four established leagues in the United States to allow its players to wear advertising. MORE

Dec. 16, 2011

Suit brought against NBA by former security official Warren Glover says he repeatedly warned his superiors that women in his office were being sexually harassed or discriminated against; contends his concerns were ignored, and that he was ultimately fired for his actions on the women's behalf. MORE

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